Year: 2015

CSAW 2015 – Web 500 (Weebdate) Writeup

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Challenge Info

  • CTF: CSAW 2015
  • Challenge: Weebdate
  • Category: Web
  • Points: 500

Challenge Description

    Since the Ashley Madison hack, a lot of high profile socialites have scrambled to find the hottest new dating sites. Unfortunately for us, that means they're taking more safety measures and only using secure websites. We have some suspicions that Donald Trump is using a new dating site called "weebdate" and also selling cocaine to fund his presidential campaign. We need you to get both his password and his 2 factor TOTP key so we can break into his profile and investigate.

    Flag is md5($totpkey.$password)

    http://54.210.118.179/

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DEFCON 23 Badge Challenge

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Authors: image Brett Buerhaus, image Jason Thor Hall

Original Post: http://potatohatsecurity.tumblr.com/post/126411303994/defcon-23-badge-challenge

Brett, Jon, and I teamed up with Council of 9 and won this years badge challenge after having great success in the DEFCON 22 Badge Challenge. Over the last year we have studied a huge number of cryptographic methods and ancient languages to prepare for this. We also released our own crypto-challenge website for the community to follow along and have fun challenging themselves. With our new knowledge and a great team in tow we headed out to DEFCON.

Here is the entire adventure as we experienced it with all of the puzzles, their solutions, and the steps to solve them. Understand that this document contains MASSIVE spoilers so if you do not want to ruin it for yourself please stop reading now.

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Google.com – Mobile Feedback URL Redirect Regex/Validation Flaw

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Back in October of last year I discovered a JavaScript flaw on Google.com that bypassed protocol validation by abusing an if check against a URL parsed by regex. I was unable to find a way to attack this vector, but was still rewarded a bounty of $500 due to Google knowing of an active browser vulnerability that allowed them to exploit it successfully.

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Flickr API Explorer – Force users to execute any API request.

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Flickr has a developer application section called The App Garden. Developers are able to create apps that make API calls to Flickr as an authenticated user via OAuth. I discovered a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack vector that allowed you to attack any user on Flickr.

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